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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. On with the interview.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Realistically, that can happen on a large enough scale only if business leaders cooperate with one another, unions, and educational institutions, both regionally and nationally. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Collaboration is not a style. Amy Jen Su.